Emotion is one of the main reasons why people engage and interact with music. Songs can
express our inner feelings, produce goosebumps, bring us to tears, share an emotional state …

This paper discusses contemporary advancements in the affective sciences (described
together as skeptical theories) that can inform the music-emotion literature. Key concepts in …

We present a platform and a dataset to help research on Music Emotion Recognition (MER).
We developed the Music Enthusiasts platform aiming to improve the gathering and analysis …

Emotions have been found to play a paramount role in both everyday music experiences
and health applications of music, but the applicability of musical emotions depends on: 1) …

Although the majority of previous research on music-induced responses has focused on
pleasurable experiences and preferences, it is undeniable that music is capable of eliciting …

One way music is thought to convey emotion is by mimicking acoustic features of affective
human vocalizations [Juslin and Laukka (2003). Psychol. Bull. 129 (5), 770–814]. Regarding …

The link between music and emotion, as articulated from a cognitive perspective, assumes
that music carries expressive cues that convey or induce emotional responses in listeners …

Music and visual mental imagery (VMI) are closely associated. The visual depiction of
musical instruments and musical settings is central to music iconography and music …

Two behavioral studies are reported that ask whether listeners experience different
emotions in response to melancholic and grieving musical passages. In the first study …

Many researchers have noted inconsistencies between descriptions and effects of nominally
sad music. The current study addresses whether traditional music-related sadness can be …